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OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals

256 points · 257 comments · jonnonz

  1. Chance-Device · · focus · HN ↗
    > He said the agent had accessed files that were publicly available as well as material that was not intended for public access.

    “Not intended”. I’ll bet you whatever this was it wasn’t even secured, it was just hosted somewhere openly.

    1. gitonup · · focus · HN ↗
      Ok, if we're not being at all charitable with the language used by the hosts of the data, let's be equally uncharitable with OpenAI.

      - If "OpenAI" means the company acting on behalf of the company, why were they even looking to do this?

      - If "OpenAI" means they were acting as a proxy for bad actors, what actions do we take to handle that?

      - If "OpenAI" means they were accidentally breaching this system, in what sense does that distinction even matter, in terms of the outcome? If I build a nuke by accident without eng. due diligence, am I legally liable?

      1. trinsic2 · · focus · HN ↗
        There using this framing to get the public used to the idea that LLMS can do all of this on there own without direct instruction. So criminals can hide there behavior behind agents.
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        2. bigiain · · focus · HN ↗
          I saw an analogy recently.

          If you dog bites the postman, you are liable, even if you didn't tell or encourage you dog to do it. You are responsible for your dog's actions. You get to pay the postman's medical bills, you may get fined, and your dog may get put down - especially if this isn't the first time it's bitten someone.

          OpenAI has "bitten the postman" many many times, and it's "owners" have boastewd about it and used it in their marketing.

          How many more times should society allow this to happen before we say "enough" and hold Sam Altman and the board responsible and make them pay restitrution, and put it down?

          If Albanese actually had a spine (as claimed elsewhere in this discussion), Sam and the board will be getting an invoice for all the time/expertise spend investigating this intrusion, and restitution for everybody who's PII and PHI was exposed. (Although I suspect a good deal of responsibility for the data exposure rests with the people who designed and deployed the system that was breached. )

          1. idontwantthis · · focus · HN ↗
            Yes, this is why all discussion about "safeguards" is maddening to me. They are simply committing crimes, and people should go to jail. I guarantee that OpenAI will stop worrying about "alignment" when people simply go to jail for hacking and theft.
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